tricks!

it’s been a bit of a hassle getting emacs to read python files in python-mode. in spite of downloading a python-mode file and putting it in my boot path, emacs still refused to enter python mode. i kept getting the error message:

file-error “Cannot open load file” “python-mode”

turns out the problem was that i needed to specify emacs’ own load-path, by inserting the following line into my .emacs file: